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“Most persons think that a state in order to be happy ought to be large; but even if they are right, they have no idea of what is a large and what a small state.... To the size of states there is a limit, as there is to other things, plants, animals, implements; for none of these retain their natural power when they are too large or too small, but they either wholly lose their nature, or are spoiled.”

Ifs Thinking Persons Ideas States Order Loses Natural Animal Ought Limits Plant Size No Idea Consumerism Spoiled Overconsumption

Book:The Essential Aristotle

Source: The Essential Aristotle

“We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten our former states, except in early spring when we slightly recall being green again.”

Humans States Animal Spring Green Plant Forgotten Former Recalls Being Human Minerals Plant Life Early Spring

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Wilderness is not only a haven for native plants and animals but it is also a refuge from society. Its a place to go to hear the wind and little else, see the stars and the galaxies, smell the pine trees, feel the cold water, touch the sky and the ground at the same time, listen to coyotes, eat the fresh snow, walk across the desert sands, and realize why its good to go outside of the city and the suburbs. Fortunately, there is wilderness just outside the limits of the cities and the suburbs in most of the United States, especially in the West.”

“Junk turns the user into a plant. Plants do not feel pain since pain has no function in a stationary organism. Junk is a pain killer. A plant has no libido in the human or animal sense. Junk replaces the sex drive. Seeding is the sex of the plant and the function of opium is to delay seeding. Perhaps the intense discomfort of withdrawal is the transition from plant back to animal, from a painless, sexless, timeless state back to sex and pain and time, from death back to life.”

Feels Humans States Pain Turns Sex Animal Function Plant Intense Transition Killers Users Organisms Timeless Delay Discomfort Junk Withdrawal Opium Stationary Painless Libido Sex Drive

Author:William S. Burroughs

“Variable but forecastable renewables (wind and solar cells) are very reliable when integrated with each other, existing supplies and demand. For example, three German states were more than 30 percent wind-powered in 2007 - and more than 100 percent in some months. Mostly renewable power generally needs less backup than utilities already bought to combat big coal and nuclear plants' intermittence.”

Needs States Bigs Three Example Wind Months Demand Percent Plant Nuclear Cells Combat Coal Utility Integrated Supplies Variables Backup Supply And Demand Nuclear Plants Solar Cells

Author:Amory Lovins

“Ritual use of psychedelic plants and substances has been a particularly effective technology for inducing holotropic states of consciousness.”

Has Beens States Use Consciousness Technology Plant Substance Ritual Psychedelic States Of Consciousness

Book:The Cosmic Game: Explorations of the Frontiers of Human Consciousness

Source: The Cosmic Game: Explorations of the Frontiers of Human Consciousness